Casey Williams Casey Williams
Casey Williams is a senior at Duke University studying literature. He has been working on responsible investing projects for several years and currently serves on Duke's Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility.
Jan 24, 2014
Jacob Tobia Jacob Tobia
Jacob Tobia is a senior at Duke University pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in human rights advocacy and leadership. As vice president of equity and outreach for Duke Student Government, Jacob advocates on behalf of LGBTQ rights, racial justice, investment responsibility and other progressive causes on campus.
Jan 24, 2014
Hilary Matfess Hilary Matfess
Hilary Matfess is a graduate student and independent researcher at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Jan 23, 2014
Samantha Retrosi Samantha Retrosi
Samantha Retrosi competed in women’s singles luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Since her retirement in 2007, she has been active in the struggle for social justice and human rights, including the Occupy movement. She is currently a graduate student in George Mason University’s Department of Sociology.
Jan 22, 2014
Cyd Zeigler Cyd Zeigler
Cyd Zeigler is co-founder of Outsports.com, the worldwide leader in LGBTI sports. He has written the coming-out stories of countless athletes and is one of the world’s leading experts on LGBT athletes.
Jan 22, 2014
Kye Allums Kye Allums
Kye Allums is a trans* advocate & founder of Project I Am Enough.
Jan 22, 2014
NARAL Pro-Choice America NARAL Pro-Choice America
Jan 22, 2014
Betty Medsger Betty Medsger
As a Washington Post reporter in 1971, Betty Medsger wrote the first stories about the revelations in the stolen Media, Pennsylvania FBI files. In January 2014, Alfred A. Knopf published her book The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, in which the burglars are revealed and the impact of their actions is told.
Jan 22, 2014
Alfred McCoy Alfred McCoy
Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, which is the source for much of the material in this essay.
Jan 21, 2014
Nir Elias Nir Elias
Jan 15, 2014